Tauwehe

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Tauwehe
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• ABSTRACT
• Tauwehe a photographic exploration of
  dIsplacement as contained in Maori oral histories
  of land kinship.
• Aue, Marsha, its awfullook what theyve done
  to the land, aue, aue.
• I heard inflections of despair, sadness and
  regret in my mothers voice as she saw the new
  coastal development cutting into what was once
  her tupunas land. Taking in its mutilation of
  topography, scraped of all vegetation back to
  dirt and its Bare Land for Sale sign, my mother
  felt she and Maori culture were under assault.
  
• This research project originated with custodians
  of Te Tii Waitangi describing how the loss of
  their land affected living practices. The
  Tauwehe project inquires how abstracted
  photography can employ codified patterns to probe
  themes of dislocation and displacement as
  contained in Te Tii Waitangi land kinship oral
  histories.

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PaperTauwehe Te Tii RewovenThis paper
explores tukutuku panels as an exemplar of
codified patterns as narrative devices to
generate abstract photographic visual language to
weave new stories for Te Tii.
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• Record Maori land kinship oral histories of Te
  Tii Waitangi and identify themes of dislocation
  and displacement contained in them.
• Photograph in the Te Tii environment with themes
  and stories in mind.
• Scan images and explore them in the workspace.
  Create.
• Reflect, read, review, research. Look for
  outcomes and disparities.

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Do you think we can only know things by comparing
them to other things? (Barth, 2006).
Images credited to Uta Barth. blog.styleserver.de
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Is the practice of oral history the ordinary
mans way of combating the denial of access to
history? Portelli (1991).
Image credit to Star Gossage
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• Tukutuku
• Tukutuku may be seen as a model of patterns in an
  arranged systematic collection as a technique for
  symbolic representation of accounts of
  experience.
• As a model tukutuku like other models has
  parameters and rules which regulate its use and
  application which can be explored.

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Double Poutama tukutuku panels in the
Christchurch Cathedral
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Koru by Tanya Ruka tanyaruka.blogspot.com/2008_04_
01_archive.html
...'We live by stories, we also live in them. One
way or another we are living the stories planted
in us, early or along the way, or we are also
living the stories we planted - knowingly or
unknowingly - in ourselves. We live stories that
either give our lives meaning or negate it with
meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live
by, quite possibly we change our lives'.- Ben
Okri(quoted in The Truth About Stories by Thomas
King )
OTHER ARTISTS WORK - Image credit to Tanya Ruka
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Examples of contemporary tukutuku patterned
mapping and symbolic association. Trying to set
codes.
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The unpretentious thing evades thought most
stubbornly. Heidegger (date)
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A typical work space where images are moved to
and compared, contrasted, sized, layered,
preferred, etc.
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Insider Researcher and immersion   Vidich and
Lyman suggest that the postmodern ethnographer
takes Simmels tragedy of culture to be a fait
acompli and that such a stance makes both the
researcher and the researchers field
problematic. This suggests there is no way to
clearly separate the field from the insider
researcher especially since postmodernism is
concerned with what lies at the periphery of a
field. In pointing out the dangers of immersion
it might also be noted that immersion may be
considered a form of thorough mapping consistent
with rigor and that in its thoroughness it has
the ability to be self regulating especially in
context to cross discipline research.